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- 3111: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... organised themselves to attempt to stop the use of machines, the often used force and smashed up the machinery that they thought threatened their livelihoods, they were known as the LUDDITES. Parliament passed a bill to make this smashing of machines punishable by hanging and in many counties in the north of England Luddites were hanged for their offences, The first national trade union was the A.S.E. the ...
- 3112: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... the months after the agency's start. Through the efforts of the thousands of hard working Americans and the support of most of the presidents, it seemed as though the working man finally had some rights. With a minimum wage and maximum working hours, no longer would the worker feel like a slave working for pennies. Still, however, the workforce would undergo many changes, but never again would it get as ...
- 3113: Indian Affairs
- ... who were willing to a pay a price. The Laissez-faire state of 1865-1900 did overse a noble historical epoch for the U.S economy, but did not oversee a noble epoch for individual rights and protections in the U.S. Such events as the expansion into the West, the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted acres of land to settlers who would work the land for five years, the ...
- 3114: India 2
- ... law the government is federal in its structure and republican in character. Similar to the United States, India is a union of states, but its government is more highly concentrated than the US government, and rights that the states are territories have are severely limited. The Chief executive and head of state in India is president. The job of the president in government is mostly symbolic and ceremonial, nevertheless the actual ...
- 3115: Inca Empire
- ... long as a year, and women in mourning cut their hair (Inca Empire 9). Rituals were very common among the Inca people. These ceremonies were very important to the Inca, and many important rituals and rights of passage were their foundation. From the Temple of the Sun in the center of Cusco, religious practices included offering of sacrifices, religious trances, and public confessions, were taking place. The sacrificial offerings were usually ...
- 3116: In The Frontiers Of One Last
- ... August 1960. Its first President was Archbishop Makarios. Over the first three years of independence relations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots deteriorated, mainly as a result of flaws in the constitution which gave disproportional rights to the Turkish Cypriot community including the right to block the passing of laws. In 1963 intercommunal violence broke out following which many Turkish Cypriots withdrew to enclaves. Attempts to bring the two sides back ...
- 3117: In The Beginning
- ... nice thing is that these terrible things have ended. If I was alive in those ages, it seems that I wouldve liked to be an Indian. This article proves that they had the most rights of all and were a pretty civilized community, and for those times thats a pretty good statement.
- 3118: Impact Of New Deal On The
- ... inside so that the employers cannot hire other non-union workers. By 1941 some 10,500,000 workers were unionized, three times as much from a decade before. Fair Labor Standards Act (Wages and Hours Bill) was passed in 1938, to protect the labor. This act required industries that are involved in interstate commerce to set the maximum hours of labor and minimum wage. It also prohibited all labor by children ...
- 3119: Homosexual Persecution In The
- ... in Germany until 1969. As a consequence, homosexual survivors of the camp experiment were still reticent to press their case before courts since they could still be prosecuted under existing laws. However, the contemporary Gay Rights Movement, both in the United States and in Europe, has led to a re-opening of the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The unparalleled treatment of homosexuals under the Nazi regime raises the same ...
- 3120: Holocoust
- ... that fueled the Holocaust started with antilocution, verbal abuse. As soon as Hitler was named chancellor, he persuaded the cabinet to declare a state of emergency allowing him to end all personal freedom. Among the rights lost were freedom of press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. He then voiced his beliefs in the supreme "Aryan" race. As his ideology spread, spoken or verbal abuse escalated. Those who were not ...
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